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NVIDIA Has Gallium3D Support In Fedora 13 (Phoronix)
Phoronix reports that Fedora 13 will come with 3D support for the free Nouveau NVIDIA driver. "With Fedora 13, Red Hat is again shipping with the latest free software NVIDIA bits, which now includes 3D support. Thanks to an update to the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package, there is 3D / OpenGL support enabled for NVIDIA hardware. This 3D support is coming from Nouveau's Gallium3D driver for most of the NVIDIA graphics hardware while there is also a classic Mesa driver for old NV hardware that recently came about."
Nvidia, Intel End Standoff as SLI Added To X58 Chipset
In a move to boost both companies, Nvidia announced it will provide native Scalable Link Interface support on Intel's X58 chipset, which is due in the fourth quarter. Nvidia's nForce 200 SLI architecture aggregates multiple graphics cards in separate PCI slots and runs them as one card for greater performance."Intel and Nvidia have finally come to their senses," said analyst Jon Peddie of JPR, a leading GPU, multimedia and gaming analysis group in Tiburon, CA. The two companies have been in a standoff.Until now, Nvidia has held all the cards in the SLI game, dealing out licenses for its chipset to motherboard manufacturers such as Gigatrend and aBit. Since many board makers rely heavily on gaming enthusiasts -- a market where Nvidia's GForce GPUs are a top player -- they bought Nvidia's chipsets by the bucket load, despite reports that competing chipsets had no technical limits with Nvidia's multi-GPU cards.However, heat issues, motherboard elbow room, and the cost of the nForce 200 gave some board makers pause, according to reports. Some industry insiders even speculated that Nvidia would get out of the chipset market entirely.Not so, said Peddie and sources at Nvidia. "They will have some chipset announcements in October," he said. Nonetheless, this announcement by Nvidia pretty much underscores that the nForce 200 had very little proprietary technology other than helping to create a licensing market for Nvidia's SLI.Cashing in ChipsetsOthers believe the chipset market is ripe for a shake-up. In an interview with Custom PC earlier this month, chipset maker VIA Technologies admitted the business is being swallowed up by Intel and AMD.Richard Brown, VIA's vice president of marketing, said the Taiwan-based company, once the leader in CPU support chips, is moving into the X86 market instead.Nvidia and Intel's GainVirtually any well-designed chipset, including Intel's X58, can...
Android Market is Google’s competitor to the Apple iPhone store
I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the Apple iPhone store for Android-powered devices. They decided to call it a market rather than a store to try to give it that "open" feeling for developers to provide content. There are several screenshots for you to check out too, including the one to the left. The Android Market will let users find, purchase, download and install content on their devices. The content does not appear to be screened by Google since you just need to register, upload and describe your content to get published. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a ...
Will we see a Nokia Aseries (Android series) or Android Tablet device in September?
I admit to being a fan of Nokia devices, but think there are several areas of the S60 Symbian-based operating system that need improvement. I am also quite a fan of Google Android, especially running on my T-Mobile G1. The Guardian is reporting the Nokia will be announcing an Android smartphone at Nokia World in September. The Guardian does not list any source for this rumor, other than industry insiders, so I am not taking this possibility as fact yet. However, I do think it would be interesting to see a Nokia ASeries (Android series) or Nokia Android Tablet class of devices with Nokia's outstanding hardware and Android's powerful and user friendly operating system. If this rumor turns out to be ...
Nvidia Turns to Chips for Industrial Imaging
Figuring out the best way to transform a frozen pizza into a perfectly warmed pie, gooey on top and crispy on the bottom, is as much a computer problem as a work of culinary art. General Mills, maker of the Totino's and Jeno's brands of pizzas, would prefer not to whip up a thousand combinations of mozzarella cheese, tomato paste, crust and chemicals and blast them with microwave radiation. It's a lot less expensive and easier to model different pizzas using a sophisticated computer and only cook up the best candidates.To speed up the task, General Mills turned to computers containing high-powered graphics chips from Nvidia, a Santa Clara company best known for making video games look more realistic on game consoles and personal computers.Energy exploration companies, clothing designers, medical companies and financial services have also bought systems running on Nvidia chips. All of these companies share a common problem: They need hardware that can analyze a vast quantity of data and do it much faster than standard computers.Nvidia, which dominates the market for stand-alone graphics processors, has a clear lead over competitors to provide this kind of industrial data crunching, thanks to a risky bet the company made several years ago.Deliberately giving up some of its graphics performance, Nvidia created a new interface, released in 2006, that lets computer programmers easily tap the hundreds of processing engines on a graphics chip to handle other tasks that require a large number of simultaneous calculations."A couple of billion dollars in R&D later, scientists and researchers around the world have come out to thank us," said Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's co-founder and chief executive.If the expensive gamble pays off, Nvidia could break out of its graphics niche and become a far more significant player in the computing landscape. "Once you have lots and...
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